Who is the "Writer" who controls this LIVE commentary on the election questions? I thought no comments would be opened until after the election. How nice to be able to continue campaigning for the votes.

Coincidentally when the last rush of voters is going out to vote. Should we wear blindfolds while reading patch if we haven't yet voted? You wouldn't want to influence the vote, would you? Who is Writer who controls what comments are displayed. You do have controls in place to keep anyone who has not voted from being able to see the commentary, right? Are we branded with a number that we have to give to prove we already voted before we are allowed to comment/watch?

Are you "Writer" who controls what comments are published? Where is the physical location of this chat conference?

This person has some real issues...

Don't Complain if you Don't vote.

Maybe I will read LIVE last minute to see how I should vote. Who is "Writer" who decides the comments that will be posted?

MaryB has some real trust issues, maybe some history there. She's definitely experienced a situation in her life.

Mary B,
Please, give it a rest, will you? I don't think too many people are going to have a revelation based on what is being said here. Lady, you have entirely too much time on your hands.

I agree I always liked situations humor
Marybeeee. I know..
VOTE No on Both! Is that the answer you want?
Or some wanted to vote for #2 and not #1? But then some liked #1 and No on #2.
ahh, man this is twisted with the two questions. I'm sure will have a meltdown and won't vote furthest questions at all.
Or best just wait until 600pm when the best advice comes from fellow patchers again!

People raising the spectre of liquor license establishments along Main St. in downtown Moorestown if the referendums pass are uninformed. Under state law, no such establishment can be within a certain distance from any school and/or religious building. When you think that spread along Main St. are Moorestown Friends Meeting, Moorestown Friends School, the Greenleaf next to the Community House (now part of MFS), First Baptist Church, OLGC Church, OLGC School, Trinity Episcopal Church, and Hope Community Church, that pretty much precludes anyone selling liquor on Main Street, doesn't it?

done our homework...
not dum like some people who cant figure it out
voting YES on both
for the millions and jobs and not the "hope"
to save our teachers jobs and programs

Did some exit polling and will
Vote NO on both liquor questions

I like to e on the side of winners!
Go Moorestown!

losing millions and jobs and teachers
makes us winners?
Vote YES

Ahh Chris good one..
"The Lord is my Shephard, there is nothing I shall want"
Now that is who I want to follow!

Maybe Jesus could turn some water into wine and you two could have a drink together.

I was hoping you could join us. Jesus did perform a lot of miracles. Perhaps more could follow him? Red wine sounds great. What byob would you recommend?

It is rather unfair to allow comments regarding this vote to occur while voting is still ongoing . Traditionally all campaigning ceases on election day to allow voters the ability to vote without fear, intimidation, coercion and the like. The fact that this site still allows this type of bickering to occurs during election hours when they in fact shut down all editorials last night is contradictory. Let the people have their day after the polls have closed.

As if, all of the sudden, any regular Moorestown patch readers will become confused on the issue? This is silly. There are not patch 'writers' shaking down voters on the way into the polls. All through this, there have been some rational, some passionate, and some downright insane comments about this issue, but no one is getting confused because of some 11th hour election coverage.

Hi Moorestown, We're live now with the discussion. Click above to join the conversation.

Amen to that, OT.

Rob,
I know that I speak for most of the bloggers here when I say thank you for taking the time to correct some misinterpretations of the liquor questions, and as well,a few comments made to the public by Council and PREIT. It is always important to provide a reliable source of information for the sake of accuracy. I imagine it was appreciated by most people on both sides of the liquor issue.
As to allowing this discussion board to continue on starting at 6 PM, well, the chance of this blog having any impact on the liquor outcome have about the same odds of my winning the lottery. I don't buy tickets.

In full disclosure, I voted Yes on both. I also sent the e-mail below to Rob Scott, Patch editor, earlier today.

Rob, Thanks for posting your Q&A about today's liquor vote on the Patch website (although I wish you had included clarification as to why downtown is legally impossible for booze sales because of the churches and schools along Main St.)...and for allowing the Patch to be a place where residents could vent their feelings on all sides of the debate during the past several weeks. However, I'm afraid many of the posted comments have shed a lot more heat than light on the subject. I am not sure how the petty rants, nasty back-biting, and incoherent childish gibberish can be controlled in this blog-happy culture of ours. I know you said previously that you are not in a position to require that comments include the identity of the writers, but I think that preventing people from hiding behind their anonymity would definitely lift the level of discussion. Perhaps you might also consider limiting individuals to one new posted comment each day; that might save your readership (like myself) from having to wade through the back-and-forth "pissing contests" between a couple of posters that sometime dominate the message board while I search for something really new and meaningful to read. Hopefully, no matter how the public questions are decided, the Patch can return to a place where more civil discourse takes place in the days ahead!

John Khanlian

Just for clarification purposes N.J. statute 33:1-76 (Liquor Laws) states: No license shall be issued for the sale of alcoholic beverages within 200 feet of any church or public schoolhouse or private schoolhouse (which includes day care centers). Just thought I'd throw that info out there FYI only.

I have lived in Moorestown all my 55 years. And I am glad too see the town come into the year 2011.It is about time we have good restaurants in the Mall.Now we can collect the taxs on the booze instead of ALL the towns around us.It should have been done years ago.I will not go to a restaurant that I have to bring my own liquor.First off I am not that cheap and second if I go out to diner to relax and have fun I want to be waited on.Not make my own drink.The Mall is boring old and going downhill and needs this shot in the arm.Thank-you everyone who voted yes.

BYOB allows beer & wine only. No hard liquor.

Well, alcohol was approved but I think the next referendum should be to ban the sale of coffee because apparently it seems as though SammyS can't control his intake. Woah, take it easy there chief.

SammyS, you are CLUELESS. like anyone with the grammar non-skills you possess actually knows anything about business...at least a successful one. did you ever see the racetrack before it became what it is today? seems like a pretty good buildup to me from horsecrap and straw. way to contradict YOUR own logic.

Situation I thought you were the funny one in all these blogs. What happened? Hey our town.. Maybe the situation needs to cool off on some of the Kool Aid, that late afternoon double shot of Joe doesn't help him

Little Sammy has a situation with CAPS.

Baker, no idea what you are blabbering about.

SS...Yeah, right.

To Mr./CEO/Professor Sammy S, what projects have you worked on for Moorestown?

i live one town over so this doesnt effect me BUT someone reading these post would think they are proposing building a prison in your town NOT having a glass of wine with dinner. I have lived in princeton and mt.laurel both with liquor i have yet to see a skid row in either. Alcohol is a problem for alcoholics and they are everywhere...rich and poor, they will got to a liquor store to get there fix. they dont need to go to your 1 mile square town to drink. I can have a glass of wine in new york,paris and rome...now your town will be on the same level..........lol

This liquor question has been one of the funniest diatribes I have ever participated in. S.S. might actually be an intelligent person I just can't tell with all of his pent up rage. If he does teach I would hope he displays stronger reasoning skills in class discussions. I bet he is a nice person though, just kinda enraged. Sorry my business of media has gotten to him. I said this before and will say it again. The town was named after a Tavern owner. The lay of the land was discussed over ales at a bar stool. A town named after a Tavern owner should not be dry. It creates an imbalance of integrity. Not about the mall, taxes or some weird agenda, just about staying true to the history. In all my years in Moorestown and Burlington County I always found it completely ridiculous that Thomas Moore's Tavern was not rebuilt and operational. When the gas station that sat on the site was closed, I wanted to rebuild it with some friends. Too difficult an environment we found out. They built a pre-fab bank on the site. ---FAIL. Tip of the cap to Moorestown voters for voting Yes.